The skier must pass between the two poles forming the gate, with the tips of both skis and the skier's feet passing between the poles. A course has 55 to 75 gates for men and 40 to 60 for women. The vertical drop for a men's course is 180 to 220 m (591 to 722 ft) and slightly less for women.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. amble. a slower, non-racing version of pace gait in horses. has many characteristics of the amble but there are four beats to the gait with each foot contacting the ground independently.
noun. An example of an amoeba. An example of an amoeba. The definition of an amoeba is a one-celled organism, common in water and soil, possessing no set cell organs, structure, or defining shape.plural amoebae or amoebas). ( 1 biology) A genus of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. ( 2 mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.